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Explorers Foundation ••• home page

Glyphs ••• list of fragments of Freeorder

Investments ••• a table of all investments

freeorder ••• the concept & vision

Threads records indications of conversations and events important to Explorers Foundation, because somehow pertinent to the emergence of freeorder. If something in one of these interests you (beyond following the links provided), please contact us. Everything here has something to do with something our own visible region of freeorder network(s) is actually involved in.

Many of the things found in Threads will be found, in greater detail, collected in Vortices.

Vortices: Threads contain references to vortices, pages that record resources, discussions, and investments, relevant to Explorers Foundation areas of focus and investment.

Vortices, are born, die, evolve, merge, split, flow, and evolve.

A list of current Explorers Foundation Vortices •••

References to vortices: “v” + the name, e.g. vGuardian

freeorder welds together free & order to ensure that never again will the two concepts be thought to be in opposition to one another.

freeorder expresses the idea that orders arising from freedom work best for all of us who wish to use our full powers of imagination, reason, and action in pursuit of happiness and in service to people and things we love.

More extensive description of freeorder •••

* ∮forge is an abbreviation of “integrating freeorder generator,” an institutional form essential to the full emergence of freeorder, in various ways, among all of the world’s cultures, resulting in a “concert of civilizations,” a phrase used by James C. Bennett ••• author of The Anglosphere Challenge.

Definitions of freeorder:

• What’s good for explorers within each of us and among us.

• A balance among designed and spontaneous orders that serves quest, venture, and error correction.

The conjecture implied by the second definition is that Hayek’s insights into kinds of order are useful in thought and productive in action and will remain so as the world of freeorder evolves.

The word quest indicates an aesthetics guided pattern of explorations. The romantic implications of the word are fundamental. The emergence of freeorder, within each of us and among us depends on fierce balances of romantic idealism and ruthless rationality.

How Explorers Foundation can be simultaneously liberal and conservative.

We are liberal (in the original and future meaning) in that we are for the freedom of every individual to imagine, think, act, and collaborate; and we are conservative to the extent that what we seek to conserve is exactly the same freedom. Such conservation of liberty requires saying “no” to some visible good things, and thereby protecting many many essential but invisible good things.

Freeorder Bridge 0.95 ••• version 0.95

Freeorder Bridge: from here to there ••• version 0.95 — a five page article (pdf) about how we will cross a seemingly impossibly wide strait. The metaphor of a suspension bridge is used to begin discussion of a centuries old chain of insights and actions that have enabled and will continue to enable the emergence of freeorder.

Weavers of freeorder

Hayek, on order, and how freeorder connects his “kinds of order” with quest

🔹 The word order is fundamental:

F. A. Hayek, in Volume I, Chapter Two, "Cosmos and Taxis", of Law, Legislation and Liberty (University of Chicago, 1973), suggests this definition of the word "order":

"By 'order' we shall throughout describe a state of affairs in which a multiplicity of elements of various kinds are so related to each other that we may learn from our acquaintance with some spatial or temporal part of the whole to form correct expectations concerning the rest, or at least expectations which have a good chance of proving correct."

“Art is the creation of form symbolic of human feeling” —Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form, pg. 50, Scribner's, 1953

The first capture on Wayback Machine of an Explorers Foundation page, 12 Feb 2003

Jon Rappoport ••• Investigative Reporter, on the act of creation

‘In fact, the deeper you explore the concept of freedom, the more you realize that creating something new, and creating that occurs outside a tight chain of prior cause and effect, are very much a part of what freedom means. Understanding these factors should be liberating.

There are several other phenomena that are closely related to “creating from nothing.” They are spontaneous insight and spontaneous invention. They occur in a flash, in the moment. They can’t be reduced to “logical implications in a chain of cause and effect.” They can’t be reduced at all.

‘And then there is this—I’ll refer to it through an experience I had in 1963, when I was living and painting in a small studio in Los Angeles. One night I was sitting at my table staring at a blank sheet of paper. I had a pencil in my hand. Suddenly, my mind was empty and crystalline. I knew in my bones, as clearly as I knew I was sitting there, that I had unlimited choices. There was no boundary on what I could draw. I was ecstatic. I made a shape on the paper. The immediate novelty of it was overwhelmingly joyous. I kept making shapes on the paper. The emerging drawing held, for me, the core of what I needed to know about life: every moment could be marvelously unhindered and free. I was always on the cusp of being able to choose a future; and being in that position, in the moment, was an experience of unrivaled beauty. Never again would I think of freedom in a dry clinical way.’ —https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/09/19/the-matrix-exit-when-the-individual-creates/

The Act of Creation ••• Arthur Koestler, 1964 - a great book, an opening into freeorder - the link goes to a complete copy of the book on Wayback Machine ••• <archive.org

Arthur Koestler ••• <wikipedia

Sharyl Attkisson podcast: “The swine flu epidemic that was not as CDC advertised” ••• vSheridan

An interesting business: how to own gold, lease it, and receive income in gold: Monetary Metals ••• company’s website.

Randal O’Toole, interesting & knowledgeable writer, especially on transport, and forest care. “Time to Shut Down the DC Metro Rail” ••• O’Toole, 16 Sep 20.

“Overturning COVID restrictions and states of emergency: Memo to lawyers: What are you waiting for? File big cases now” ••• by Jon Rappoport, September 16, 2020

LBRY ••• “It's time to take back control from YouTube and Amazon. Top creators, self-respecting users, the privacy conscious, computer geeks, freedom lovers, loveable kooks, and readers of small gray text everywhere choose LBRY, because it's open, fair, and free.”

YouTube Censors; LBRY ••• Preserves Access to interview with Dr. Scott Atlas

“In late August, the Hoover Institution filmed an in-depth interview with Dr. Scott Atlas who serves as a top health advisor to the White House, more or less replacing Anthony Fauci in that role. 

“Atlas is an advocate for opening up the economy and allowing natural immunities to control the virus. In this, he has many colleagues in the public-health profession who agree with him, including many epidemiologists, virologists, immunologists, and medical doctors, all names frequently covered at AIER. This interview conducted by Hoover allows him to explain his views in depth. 

“Incredibly, YouTube has taken down the video interview of Scott Atlas for the usual vague reasons about community standards. 

“Alex Berenson is right: ‘As censorship goes, this is both terrifying and idiotic. Like him or hate him, Scott Atlas is ADVISING THE PRESIDENT ON COVID – no one gains when YouTube denies everyone the chance to hear what he thinks. People who oppose him should want to know even more.’ 

“Two aspects of this are fortunate. LBRY has retained a copy and that copy is embedded below. In addition, Hoover retains a complete transcript of the interview. 

“If this can happen to a world-class and highly credentialed expert like Atlas, it can happen to anyone. We need decentralized solutions like LBRY now, in the interest of openness, freedom, and truth.”

Risk: “A Scientist’s Plea: The World is Not a Safe Space” ••• Roger W. Koops ••• AIER •••

Ivor Cummins’ “Viral Issue Crucial Update Sept 8th: the Science, Logic and Data Explained!” ••• <YouTube data, facts, comprehensible charts and interpretation. Cummins hallenges the need for lockdowns. Habitual submission to ignorant authority is more dangerous than any virus.

An article about someone in the tradition of freeorder who should not be forgotten: Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) ••• , a “critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions. He is sometimes seen as a forerunner to Marx.” ~thanks to Michael J. Lotus

“The Coming Coup?” ••• by Michael Anton ••• in “The American Mind”, a publication of the Claremont Institute ••• If this article plausibly describes a current possibility it is worth serious pre-emptive thought and action.

When a large number of associated people begin acting like cornered rats it is worth asking why they are behaving that way. Perhaps they have something extremely important to lose. In that case there may be something the rest of us could do to reduce their (perhaps justified) fear. We might thereby find a way to avoid catastrophe consequent to their desperation.

Charles Koch’s ‘An Open Letter Regarding Higher Education’ •••

‘In 2005, a forward-thinking Ivy League professor envisioned a powerful antidote to the polarization that now afflicts our society. He created a program that allowed students to interact freely with a diversity of ideas.  It encouraged them to consider and evaluate alternate points of view—even if they didn’t ultimately find the ideas persuasive. The cornerstone of his project was a speaker series that featured prominent people with radically different ideas discussing challenging and divisive topics such as inequality and immigration. The professor’s mission was to make his university “worthy of students who arrive expecting a great adventure.” That was a great idea.’ -the complete letter •••

Proton Mail ••• & Hong Kong

“Proton stands with Hong Kong. On July 6, the Hong Kong government introduced rules that give law enforcement sweeping censorship and surveillance powers. The move was a grave blow to Hong Kong's freedom.

 

“As part of our mission to promote privacy and freedom for all, we will be giving 50% of our ProtonVPN revenue from Hong Kong during July and August to two local organizations: 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund and Stand With Hong Kong.”

“Help us defend democracy and freedom in Hong Kong.” ••• -July 21st, 2020 by Andy Yen

“Le microbe n’est rien, le terrain est tout.” (The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything) —The last words of Louis Pasteur (Father of the “Germ Theory” of disease) •••

Audubon Conservation Ranching •••

Parker Pastures ••• becomes Audubon certified as a conservation ranch •••

Parker Pastures is a major provider for Pasture Provisions ••• ~thanks to Justin Longo

Justin Longo interviews ••• Bill and Kelli of Parker Pastures.

Monetary Metals ••• The New Way to Hold Gold ••• ~thanks to JD Bertron •••

“Our Gold Fixed Income leases connect investors with the gold-producing businesses we mentioned earlier: mints, precious metals dealers, refiners, jewelers, and mining companies.

They happily pay a fee - in metal! - to lease your gold & silver, using it as inventory or work-in-progress.

 

“This unique financing solution eliminates their exposure to the volatility of the metals prices, which lowers their financing costs. It often enables them to extract working capital back out of their inventory so they can build out their business further.

“Meanwhile, you receive a steady interest income on your gold – paid in gold – without spending down any of your gold capital.”

I’m interested in opinions about this company and its way of doing buiness. -ls

Good article and discussion on Chicago Boyz ••• “The Rolling Kristalnacht” •••

Posted by Sgt. Mom on August 19th, 2020 (All posts by Sgt. Mom)

‘The rolling Kristallnacht of “mostly peaceful” protests organized and sponsored by the unholy union of Antifa and BLM continues unabated in those mostly progressive Democrat party municipalities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and New York. Give the protesters, rioters and looters credit for stamina; they’ve kept it up for nearly two months now, and look to be going strong, still.’

altCensored.com: YouTube limits access to videos that are neither illegal, nor violate their own Terms and Conditions or Community Guidelines. ~thanks to Sharyl Attkisson

"Limited state" videos are placed behind a warning message, cannot be shared, monetized or easily found, and have likes, comments, view counts and suggested videos disabled.

YouTube removes videos that violate their ever-changing and arbitrarily enforced Community Guidelines, while Creators increasingly "self-censor" trying to avoid channel strikes and terminations.

altCensored.com is an unbiased community catalog of 66178 limited state, removed, and self-censored YouTube videos across 6377 monitored channels, of which 1013 have been deleted and 2044 are being archived in case of deletion.

Two facts about Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM) ~thanks to Marcy Ayanian

"The Ludwig von Mises Library ••• (Spanish) has 100,000 visitors annually and is the most extensive collection of works on liberty in Latin America."

"The Henry Hazlitt Center co-ordinates the courses of Economic Process (I, II and III) and Social Philosophy (Hayek and the Austrian School) that are offered to all undergraduate students in all schools."

FIRE ••• : “FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential qualities of liberty.”

“The Fall of Tax-Funded Universities and Rise of Alternatives” ••• by Mark Frazier, who was and is the inspiration for Vortex Openworld vOpenworld

“Walt Disney: Entrepreneur without Peer” ••• a new biographical essay by Gary Hoover of American Business History Center ••• written for and first published by Archbridge Institute •••

Government, Big Business, Food, Health

In the 1950s the U.S. Government, major medical and food providers, and the media, knowingly or not collaborated to convince the American people of something that was profitable but not true. Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig PhD’s article “The Oiling of America” ••• is good background for thinking about any government/media/business response to a big health issue. vMethuselah

Opinion: Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis, by Dr. Harvey A Risch

As published in Newsweek •••

The original paper ••• at American Journal of Epidemiology •••

“Together we’ve flattened the curve, now it’s time to flatten the fear. Doctors from around the country are saying it’s okay to get back to work and reopen America.” Flatten The Fear ••• a project of Job Creators Network Foundation •••

Covid-19 Facts ••• from Flatten the Fear

Nothing could be more dangerous than cultivating a submissive and helpless population. -ls

The cost of perfect safety is ruinous; its pursuit is not safe. -ls

Micro-businesses blunt the economic impact of COVID-19 ••• (GoDaddy’s Venture Forward project)

Venture Forward •••

“Venture Forward is a multi-year GoDaddy project looking at millions of microbusinesses, or ventures, across the U.S. and the economic impact they make on their communities and the nation. Our mission is to give a greater voice to these everyday entrepreneurs who help drive prosperity, reduce unemployment, and stay resilient in economic downturns by sharing our raw data and insights, in the spirit of making a more inclusive economy.”

Olaudah Equiano - an inspiration

These two “Equiano Projects” are distinct.

Olaudah Equiano was the first political activist within Britain’s African community during the 18th century. https://equiano.uk

The Premiere Event of the Equiano Project:

Is it time to forge a new narrative about race?

From FEE: “Atlanta– The Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is pleased to announce that Zilvinas Silenas has been appointed to serve as the organization’s 11th president, succeeding Lawrence W. Reed this spring. Mr. Silenas brings to FEE over a decade of free-market think tank leadership, together with an energetic belief in the power of education in the principles of freedom to improve both the lives of individuals and the course of humanity worldwide.” •••

Daniel Hannan ••• & John O’Sullivan ••• on Iain Murray’s ••• new book, The Socialist Temptation •••

“Socialism does not come offering bread lines, secret police, or gulags. It sells itself as a decent and uplifting creed. It appeals to our belief in fairness, in kindness, in standing up for the little guy—even, sometimes, in patriotism. Iain Murray takes those claims seriously. Instead of using socialism as a swear word, as conservatives sometimes do, he properly analyzes its appeal. When a lot of people, even on the right, are falling for arguments that ought to have been discredited long ago, this is a vital task—especially so, perhaps, during the authoritarian spasm that has followed the coronavirus infections. Restoring freedom is going to be a grueling and arduous task. Here is the instruction manual.” —Daniel Hannan, former Member of the European Parliament and founding president of the Initiative for Free Trade •••

“With the rise of belief in socialism among young people, we need a book about it that they’ll read. This is it. Iain Murray has written a masterpiece of concise evidence-based argument that demolishes socialism in every particular. It’s short. It’s highly readable. And it packs an intellectual punch.” —John O’Sullivan, president of the Danube Institute ••• and author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister ••• (Ashbrook)

Three Gorges Dam, China

“German-Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo told Radio France Internationale on Monday the dam could collapse at any moment. Wang pointed out that the dam’s design, construction, and quality inspection were all carried out by the same group of people and that the project was finished too quickly using substandard concrete.”

Dreams, Engineering, Failure: books by Henry Petroski - the role of failure in successful design ••• ~glyph 415

Fabien Cousteau plans the International Space Station of the Deep Sea ••• (Forbes)

‘“Today there’s this misperception that all knowledge is known,” says Northeastern professor Brian Helmuth, a scientific collaborator on the project who credits Jacques Cousteau for inspiring his career in marine biology. “If you want to know something, you just have to look it up on the internet, going to Wikipedia. The idea that there is still so much that is unknown has been lost from the public consciousness. And that’s critical for rekindling the appetite for exploration.”’ —from the above article

Unended Quest.com (entire book) the autobiography of Karl R. Popper

Robert Gore, on freeorder (although not named by that word)

“The order that will emerge in some places—if humanity survives—will be the order that flows from freedom: the order of free thought, free expression, free production, and free exchange. The order of people who respect individual rights—they’re own and everyone else’s—and will fight to the death to defend them. The order of those who seek neither to rule nor to be ruled. The order of those independent thinkers who hold reason, truth and reality paramount. The time for humanity to reach its shining potential was many millennia ago, but it’s never too late. Never underestimate the power of one, and never underestimate the power of ones—those who envision humanity’s glory and work together to achieve and defend it.” —“The Power of Ones” ••• on Gore’s Straight Line Logic •••

Updated: Vortex Socrates : fearless inquiry •••

Walter Williams’ Facebook page ••• offers insights into constraints impeding the emergence of freeorder, and teaches things good to understand if the intent is to dissolve those constraints.

Daniel Hannan’s Foreword to How Market Environmentalism Can Protect Nature and Save the World ••• <— download the entire book without charge, edited by Christopher Barnard Kai Weiss.

“Just as private ownership is good for the environment, so is sovereignty. Indeed, the desire to protect our green spaces is rooted, ultimately, in love of homeland. The clue is in the name: conservatives are natural conservationists. The environment, more than anything else, embodies Edmund Burke’s definition of society as a partnership between the living, the dead and the yet unborn.

“So why is it so often seen to be the other way around? Why is environmentalism thought to be owned by the Left? Why are environmental solutions almost always presented as depending on more bureaucracy, higher taxes, wealth redistribution, and a loss of national sovereignty?”

“Prescribed Burns Benefit Bees” 🐝🐝🐝 ~thanks to Susan Schmidt, and Linx Selby

The New Culture Forum ••• London

“Culture, it is said, is upstream from politics. Certainly, we in the New Culture Forum believe that cultural issues are the defining ones of our time.

“More and more people are passionately engaged in these issues, but feel there is no outlet within an atmosphere which is dominated by the existence of a liberal/left groupthink. The triumph of cultural relativism and political correctness in the opinion-forming fields of the media, academia, education and culture has meant that this groupthink has become even more deeply entrenched. The liberal establishment sets the terms of debate.

“At a time of threat from extremism, the West finds itself besieged from within and without. Too often our enemies and our opinion formers appear to agree that Western culture is indefensible or a source purely of shame.

“We, however, believe that the West is in fact a unique bastion of reasoned freedom and that Britain in particular should be proud of the great role it has played in Western education, art and culture.”

flattenthefear.com — a project of Job Creators Network •••

Mises University ••• is in full session

Jeff Diest, President: “Mises University is happening now! Not a watered-down online version, but a full-fledged Mises Institute live event. Students from around the country are on our beautiful campus and are devouring the lectures we offer.

“Our students are among the best and brightest. Their willingness to read serious books and engage in deep, difficult thought sets them apart from their peers. I am glad they are here this week! We're building relationships and connections that will last for decades.”

The Great U-Turn: from decline to renewal

We are beginning a transition from the decline of America 2.0 to the awakening of America 3.0.

'Whatever travails may beset us in the years ahead, we believe that an attempt to “double-down” on the Progressive vision will ultimately fail, if only because it cannot possibly be paid for. This failure may provoke the crisis that will complete the Great U-Turn. However contemporary events play out, we anticipate a new, third era in the history of the Republic, re-synthesized on the original vision and principles of the Founders.’ —Bennett & Lotus, America 3.0: rebooting American prosperity in the 21st century—why America’s greatest days are yet to come, pg. 185, in chapter 7, “The Great U-Turn”

If we succeed, history will say: the “woked,” at the end of 2.0, sought dominance, but in the dawn of 3.0 they were displaced by the newly awakened. (Among those newly awakened were many of the formerly “woked”.)

The change will move our culture from schooling to education, from being taught what to think, to learning how to think.

We will restore, invent, and build. We will criticize by creating.

The destruction of money by continuous massive issue

‘The covid-19 pandemic environment has pushed the Federal Reserve to print $2.9 trillion in new paper money in just 13 weeks, or about $22 million a minute, the analysts detailed. “By any measure, this is corruption of money on an industrial scale,” they exclaimed, predicting that investors will pour money into bitcoin and gold “as a safe haven when they lose confidence in paper money.”’ https://news.bitcoin.com/ferocious-rally-weiss-ratings-bullish-bitcoin-price-70k/ vMulligan

Real Clear Markets ••• — articles, titles, url

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, on Donald Trump

“Those who have not studied Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (孫子兵法) can never fully understand Trump and his way. … Trump’s understanding of (military) strategy is on the level of its original creator.” https://www.facebook.com/notes/yasuhiko-genku-kimura/trump-and-the-art-of-war/10157715288169856

“Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a philosopher, a Buddhist priest and scholar, and is now working as a consultant/advisor to corporate CEOs and their companies. His English publications include The Book of Balance, Think Kosmically Act Globally, and Think: The First Principle of Business Ethics.” I will add that I’ve known Yasuhiko for a long time, and can attest that he is a deeply intelligent man, whose reading is extensive. Whatever each of us may think of Trump the fact that GYK thinks of him this way is intriguing, and worth a bit of time to ask, “how could this be?” There are many surface indications that it could not be so, but then, they are surface.” -ls

Leif Smith: What is to be done? a quiet, fast, revolution [glyph 619]

Imagine a wheel. At the top, collectives — at the bottom, individuals. That wheel must be made to revolve. Why? For all who value exploration, curiosity, imagination, wonder, venture, challenge, integrity. There are many of us. We will turn the wheel. Here's how: We will tell stories of a new world, listen for adventures, share them, invest in the best of them, and from each we will draw power to turn the wheel. We will weave patterns of thought and action inspiring networks that change expectations. We will design for emergence, limit control, manifest strengths, live in freeorder. This is what is to be done.

All action is driven by expectation.

Jeffrey A. Tucker: “One of the most marvelous books I’ve read this year is Donald Henderson’s personal story of the eradication of smallpox. The book is Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. It’s a brilliant and thrilling adventure story by a man who worked his entire life to make the world a better place. He was also the author (with others) of a mighty treatise against lockdowns that appears at AIER. He died in 2016, which is tragic because we could have used his wisdom in these crazy times.”

Matt Taibbi: “Year Zero: On America's birthday, celebrating the corporate-sponsored revolution: It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate consultant’s white guilt self-help manual, and a New York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong.” —the first paragraph of a long article, available to subscribers of Taibbi’s Substack •••

W. S. Churchill: “Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.” https://slife.org/winston-churchill-quotes/ vGuardian

Daniel Hannan ••• 13 June 2020: “Removing the statue of Cecil Rhodes would be cowardly and anti-intellectual. There is no point parading your moral superiority over Rhodes simply because he upheld the values of his age.”

“In 1357, afflicted by plague and military disaster, the people of Siena demolished a statue of Venus. As Tom Holland explains in his wonderful history, Dominion, the Sienese were acting as earlier Christians had done, convinced that, by pulverising pagan carvings, they were exorcising demons. Iconoclasm – the destruction of graven images – has been a feature of many millenarian  movements down the ages. The latest cult to embrace it can be found gathered outside my old Oxford college, Oriel, howling at a little effigy of Cecil Rhodes.” … “

Continues at: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/13/removing-statue-cecil-rhodes-would-cowardly-anti-intellectual/ (may require subscription)

“How disbanding police can lead to less crime and less conflict ••• Joe Jarvis, June 14, 2020 for The Daily Bell •••

Deterioration of journalism: “The American Press Is Destroying Itself” ••• Matt Taibbi, former contributing editor for Rolling Stone

How is is now: “It’s been learned in these episodes [recent] we may freely misreport reality, so long as the political goal is righteous.”

How it was then: “The ideal … was that we showed you everything we could see, good and bad, ugly and not, trusting that a better-informed public would make better decisions. This vision of media stressed accuracy, truth, and trust in the reader’s judgment as the routes to positive social change.”

And once upon a time in the Soviet Union, Lenin stated explicitly in a speech published in Pravda in 1920: “We say: morality is what serves to destroy the old exploiting society and to unite all the working people around the proletariat, which is building up a new, communist society.” —from “May Day: The Conspiracy of Silence Around the Romance of Evil” ••• by Michael Strong

The use of Ozone Therapy against Coronavirus: “A Plausible "Penny" Costing Effective Treatment for Corona Virus - Ozone Therapy” ••• by Robert Jay Rowen, MD and Howard Robins, DPM

“Ozone and oxidation therapies as a solution to the emerging crisis in infectious disease management: a review of current knowledge and experience” ••• Robert Jay Rowen,

Private Medical Practice, Santa Rosa, CA. This paper includes an account of Dr. Rowen’s use of Ozone Therapy during the West African Ebola epidemic, upon invitation of Sierra Leone’s president.

Is it possible that this letter may be the equivalent of Emile Zola’s devastating article on the injustice of the persecution of Dreyfus?

Anonymous letter from a Berkeley professor to anonymous colleagues •••

Zola and Dreyfus

‘On January 13, 1898, the most famous front page in the history of journalism appeared in a French paper beneath a one-word headline: “J’accuse!” (I accuse!). In the 4,000-word open letter that ran beneath it, France’s leading novelist, Emile Zola, accused the French government of having orchestrated a travesty of justice four years before, in which an innocent Jewish captain in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of treason and sentenced to solitary confinement for life on Devil's Island – a hellish penal colony off the coast of South America. Zola’s letter exploded with the force of a bomb, causing French society to split in two: …’ —from https://www.shapell.org/manuscript/emile-zola-dreyfus-affair

Free the People is proud to bring you How to Love Your Enemy: A Restorative Justice Story.

‘A city in Colorado tries a different kind of justice system, powerful enough to transform a broken system of mass incarceration in the United States. Instead of locking up non-violent offenders, these advocates focus on the challenging but rewarding process of individual responsibility, forgiveness, and redemption that radically shifts our idea of justice and our part in it.

‘This Free the People original documentary film was the winner of Best Feature and Best Director at Front Range Film Festival and has been selected at numerous other film festivals across the country, now postponed due to COVID-19. Free the People is releasing the full film ahead of schedule to join the conversation happening right now about police violence and racial disparities in our justice system in the United States. "How To Love Your Enemy" is an emotionally compelling story about real people working to make things right, and a tutorial for other communities looking to restore faith in their justice systems and law enforcement.’

Restorative Justice ••• Longmont, Colorado

“Longmont police have found they can impact offenders without charging and arresting them for their crimes. The city’s restorative justice program, run by the Longmont Community Justice Partnership ••• has become known nationally for its unique model and close ties to the city’s law enforcement.” ~thanks to Steve Elliott - from “Threads” June 2019

“Brexit and the Power of Optimism” ••• Daniel Hannan, Cato’s Letter, Winter 2017

“I went to the European Parliament urging the abolition of the place, which is a tough sell.) They used to mock Cato and mimic his voice, and every time he stood up they would groan. But you know what—in the end, they did it [Romans destroyed Carthage]. And it was the same with our referendum about leaving the European Union. You can achieve the most extraordinary things if you have a better song to sing. And that’s really the message that I want to share with you tonight—about how you win as optimists.”

Hannan has a better understanding of freeorder than any politician I’ve encountered. -ls

Government restrictions on speech about healing must stop - a message from the Alliance for Natural Healing: “see you in court” •••

The FDA, FTC, and other agencies are gagging MDs and other practitioners with a slew of warning letters, preventing them from advising their patients and the public on how to stay healthy during the pandemic.

One warning letter was sent to a nutritionist who talked about the results of a recent study showing that the severity of coronavirus patient outcomes was tied to the patient's vitamin D status. The post concluded, "The bottom line? In order to give yourself the best defense against the coronavirus, begin with optimizing your vitamin D status to at least 30 ng/ml starting today." 30 ng/ml is just the minimum safe level of vitamin D on standard tests used by almost all doctors. But this nutritionist could face fines or even jail for sharing this basic information.

We have a simple message for these federal agencies: We’ll see you in court. Will you stand with us and support our petition and our legal efforts?

My wife, Pat, worked in a health food store years ago and witnessed government officials remove all the folic acid from the shelves because the label said it would help prevent birth defects.

BBEdit 13.0 (for MacOS) now allows exploration of “grep” patterns! This just must have something to do with freeorder - I’m working on it :-)

The "Pattern Playground" window provides an interactive interface for experimenting with the behavior of Grep patterns (regular expressions). This makes the process of creating complicated patterns much less trial-and-error, since you can see exactly what will match, and how, before committing to any irreversible actions.’ x.com -notes for BBEdit 13.0

“BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for macOS. This

award-winning product has been crafted to serve the needs of writers,

Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of

features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code,

and textual data.” •••

“Academia as the World's Leading Social Problem and What to Do About It” ••• by Michael Strong, first published by FLOW and The Free Cities Institute

“For reasoned scholarship in a free society” —National Association of Scholars •••

The 1921 Club ••• (glyph 421) is for anyone who likes the idea that the 19th century rather than the 20th should be the parent of the 21st.

June 2, 2020: Armed citizens of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, defend their town against potential rioters. Good to see this ••• — Nothing like freeorder can exist in a culture dominated by predators. vGuardian

A small object, placed at the right point, can cause a massive river to seek a new channel. The shift can be astonishingly swift.

Jim Shroads said, “hemogoblins”

A bullet point history from the American Business History Center

“This week we present another very brief ‘bullet point biography.’  A classic story of shattered dreams.” — Gary Hoover writes the story ••• of the Van Sweringen brothers, Cleveland, Ohio: Forgotten Empire Builders: Cleveland’s Van Sweringen Brothers

by Gary Hoover, May 29, 2020

 

“At the American Business History Center, we focus our energies on those companies (and their founders and leaders) which became household names or large businesses.  Yet history is littered with smaller ‘bit players’ on the economic stage. Some of them, like the unique, tragic Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, left lasting marks on their cities.  While we hesitate to give such interesting people short shrift, we figure it is better than no shrift at all.”

A catalog ••• of Gary Hoover’s stories

Question: How do we build a list of reliable journalists? What are our standards? Tests?

Jason Goodman ••• is an independent journalist, supported by those who listen to him. Should we spend time listening to Jason Goodman?

Goodman interviews ••• (YouTube) Alan Dershowitz: mandatory vaccinations?

Spike Cohen’s philosophy •••

You own yourself. 

Because you own yourself, you own your life and labor.

Because you own your labor, you own the product of your labor. That product is your property.

Because you own yourself, your life, your labor and your property (including money), it is inherently wrong for anyone to take any of these from you.

If someone calls themselves “the government”, that doesn’t suddenly make it right for them to take from you.  Therefore, all government is inherently wrong and should end.

I am running for VP on a message of radical libertarianism; that is, that all interactions between people should be peaceful and voluntary, and that therefore there is no good reason for government to exist.

“Young Heretics is a podcast about truth, beauty, and the stuff that matters. While the academies of higher learning go ever crazier, Ph.D. in classics and Chief Heretic Spencer Klavan puts aside all the identity politics to get at the heart of what makes Western literature, philosophy, and poetry great.” •••

Never underestimate the power of a question. Who will fight for your rights?” ••• by Robert Gore, Straight Line Logic •••

Robert Gore is the author of the novel, The Golden Pinnacle ••• — someone told me, “if you like Ayn Rand, you will like this book.” He was right.

“Meekness is not weakness. How different life is when we seek humility regardless of whether it looks cool or not.” —Scott Ragsdale, an interesting man, with much to contribute to the emergence of freeorder. His entire post •••

“I am not a soft guy — so I share all this seeking wisdom and how it has made all the difference… by simply embracing and growing from negative experiences instead of being a victim, fighting and allowing myself to be consumed by negativity.

“Yes, I know …. it is easier said than done, but regardless of how challenging things get in your life, try not to get pulled down and waste time arguing/fighting/shouting over nothing.”

Scott is a world-class endurance athlete and a co-founder of Naseba ••• Dubai.

1 Earth Nation ••• Welcomes You ~thanks to Jim Shroads

The online Master of Science in Integrated Design, Business and Technology ••• offered by USC Iovine and Young Academy

Dreams, Engineering, Failure: books by Henry Petroski - the role of failure in successful design ••• ~glyph 415

Imagination and architecture

Pada Labs ••• Istanbul ~thanks to Robin Titus

Ocean Builders ••• ~thanks to Mark Frazier

Openworld Village ••• ~thanks to Mark Frazier

Long vision & investment decisions

Long-term vision and investment: Impact 17 ••• ~thanks to Robin Titus

Le Group Pictet, Geneva, Switzerland: a short video ••• on the brevity of life and the importance of thinking about long-term investment in the well-being of community.

Foolish regulation: Airlines are required to continue serving all the points they served on the date the coronavirus stimulus bill passed, regardless of whether they have any passengers ••• by Bob Poole, a founder of Reason Magazine

“We Were Wrong: So Sorry that We Ruined Your Life” ••• an excellent article by Jeffrey A. Tucker on how governments made ignorance the basis to justify commands more destructive than the virus.

COMMENTS on EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259: SUPPORT FOR supplement to proposed [EPA] rule: “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” •••

“The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT ••• or the Committee) is pleased to submit the following comments in strong support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Rulemaking titled Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science.

“We believe this rulemaking is vitally important, long overdue, and essential to ensuring that all EPA policies and regulations are based on solid, replicable, peer-reviewed science, data, analyses and models. The proposed transparency rule will help ensure that important studies employed in support of significant EPA regulatory actions will be available for transparent reviews by qualified scientists and other experts, as well as citizens, businesses and other observers. It could and should also enable a much-needed review of past analyses and rulemakings that were based on questionable assumptions, hypotheses, data, computer models, studies and analytical practices – and/or on processes that were not transparent.

“Simply put, ending secretive science is basic common sense. It is an essential step in ensuring that evidence-based science supports policies and regulations that protect public health and welfare, while safeguarding our freedoms and prosperity, and preserving public support for and confidence in government agencies and regulations. Indeed, without transparency at every step in the process, abuses, fraud, and unnecessarily expensive and burdensome regulations are inevitable.” - CFACT’s entire response to the EPA is here:

Chapter 13 of K. Eric Drexler’s Engines of Creation proposes a way to handle disagreements involving complex scientific issues. This chapter was on line without charge but has now disappeared. Information about alternative access would be appreciated.

Collaborative Conservation, farmer/city/town agreements about water

From Sand County Foundation ••• “Recently, our team negotiated a first of its kind agreement in Iowa that allows cities to meet water quality requirements by working with farmers to implement farm conservation practices that reduce fertilizer and manure runoff. By investing in farm conservation practice in the local watershed, cities could also avoid costly upgrades to water treatment plants.” ~thanks to Ed Warner

Coronavirus: a point of view from a remarkably qualified person swimming against the current ••• Deborah Cahill, a long and worthwhile interview on YouTube. ~thanks to Phil Trice

The development of resilience in a population depends on challenge and preparation for good response. Applicable to viruses of all kinds, physical, intellectual, financial. A people without challenge grows weak, dependent on others to “save” them. A path to eventual extinction.

Strong’s Law: “Properly structured free enterprise always results over time in higher quality, lower cost, and more customized products and services.  This principle applies just as forcefully to the entrepreneurial supply of law, governance, community, housing, education, health care, and other environments supportive of happiness, and well being as it does to technology. Our world suffers because we have not allowed entrepreneurial initiative to fully address the most important issues facing humanity.”

Article ••• by Michael Strong: “Radical Social Entrepreneurs: An Introduction to Strong’s Law”

Great news, and an important moment: “Dallas Salon Owner Shelley Luther Freed From Jail by Texas Supreme Court Order” ••• a bit of the world as it could be and ought to be.

Azimuth Project ••• ~thanks to Dan Geisler ••• who has just taken a job with Azimuth to model Coronavirus

“The Azimuth Project is a group effort to study the mathematical sciences for “saving the planet.” Our goal is to make clearly presented topic literature, and to help people work together in study and research efforts. We convene at the Azimuth Forum, which is open to all who are interested in mathematical thinking and its applications to problems that matter. Most recently, for example, there is an ongoing discussion about mathematical epidemiology and its application to the Corona virus pandemic.”

Zinc, chloroquinine, and the virus ••• (YouTube: skip ad and go to 1:40) a video by Roger Seheult, MD that wastes no time making and illustrating the point ~thanks to Frank Shallenberger, Paul LaViolette, and Pierre de Rochemont

Imagination and architecture

Pada Labs ••• Istanbul ~thanks to Robin Titus

Ocean Builders ••• ~thanks to Mark Frazier

Openworld Village ••• ~thanks to Mark Frazier

Long vision & investment decisions

Long-term vision and investment: Impact 17 ••• ~thanks to Robin Titus

Le Group Pictet, Geneva, Switzerland: a short video ••• on the brevity of life and the importance of thinking about long-term investment in the well-being of community.

Foolish regulation: Airlines are required to continue serving all the points they served on the date the coronavirus stimulus bill passed, regardless of whether they have any passengers ••• by Bob Poole, a founder of Reason Magazine

A small object, placed at the right point, can cause a massive river to seek a new channel. The shift can be astonishingly swift.

“If today Alexander Fleming announced his accidental discovery of penicillin, the first sentence of every news report would say “no evidence exists that it is a cure.” This is a mind-set whose instinct is to diminish hope. Fortunately, there’s no evidence that the American people want to live that way.” —Daniel Henninger, last paragraph of an article ••• in WSJ, Apr 29, 2020

Christian Saucier, founder at Cryptotech.guru ••• Startup societies and ULEX legal system ••• (8 minutes on YouTube). ULEX ••• is an open source legal system - https://github.com/proftomwbell/Ulex

“Special Economic Zones Could Jumpstart the U.S. Recovery” ••• Joseph McKinney & Eric Sass, April 29, 2020, “Special economic zones (SEZs)—which have different economic and trade regulations than the host state or county—can stimulate trade and attract new investment. Congress needs to help innovators and entrepreneurs create more of them, now.”

The Unseen and The Seen: “Lives crushed vs. lives saved: America at the tipping point” ••• Paul Prentice, 19 Apr 2020, “The economy is not some machine that can be turned off and on at the whim of politicians and medical experts. The economy is us, we the people …” - published by John Andrews in Backbone America 22 Apr 2020

Frédéric Bastiat, What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen (1850) ••• (a foundation stone of the cathedral of freeorder), in French and English, presented by David M. Hart •••

Food for and of Thought

“The study of high cuisine – of the false consciousness of chefs – is a tenuous foundation on which to build a superstructure of philosophy and social history. But it does suggest a different, related inquiry … This is the question of why societies become obsessed by food. Why, and where, does a cuisine-centred culture flourish, in which people write and build theories about food?” —Hangchow Retrouvé: Emma Rothschild writes about the high culture of food ••• London Review of Books ••• 22 May 1980 [article is free of paywall for a short time]

Virus: Article ••• published by AIER ••• by George Gilder •••. Note the links to Briggs assessment of various kinds of statistical work, and consider this: “… slow to see that the problem was impaired hemogloblin in the blood rather than lung damage.”

Aristotle on Personal Excellence ••• ongoing research of Peter Saint-Andre •••

A protest against the current lockdown policies ••• —Guido Hülsmann ••• writing from France

SpaceX (SPACE) is targeting next week for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket loaded with broadband satellites. The mission will mark SpaceX's seventh for its Starlink ••• constellation, which is aimed at transmitting internet connectivity to remote and underserved users around the world.

Team Rubicon (TR) responding ••• to the Virus

“Disaster relief is centered on the concept of humanity. Right now, during this public health crisis, Team Rubicon has faced an unprecedented demand to provide essential services across the country and are doing everything possible to meet this need safely. Our focus continues to center on providing support for the most critical community lifelines, which include food, water, and shelter. Additionally, TR has launched medical responses near cities where hospitals are strained, and COVID-19 cases are projected to rise.”

“Think again if you believe draconian controls recommended by a few (but far from all) medical experts are saving many lives from COVID-19. Facts reported by mathematician Yitzhak Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University don’t support such beliefs.” ••• Barry Brownstein ••• American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) •••

‘Professor Israel found that no matter how much or little politicians quarantined the population, “coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way.” Whether the country relied on politicians shutting the country down (the US and UK, for example) or private voluntary actions (Sweden), Prof. Israel’s work shows that “all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week.’ ••• [original article, in Hebrew]

Here's what someone who belongs to the Tom Woods Show Elite wrote yesterday:

“I relinquish any claim on the lives of the young. As an oldster who is presumed to be peculiarly susceptible to the ravages of COVID-19, I will not ask anyone to sacrifice days, weeks or months of their time, love, life, and livelihood on my behalf. It is grotesque for the old to ask the young to sacrifice for them. Go. Live your lives. Enjoy the beautiful spring weather. I have no claim on you for my welfare.” -I agree. -ls

“All fundamental scientific discoveries change the structure of human affairs.” —Richard Rhodes, 2012 — a quotation found at the Payne Institute for Public Policy ••• at Colorado School of Mines

“In the Fertile Crescent, the work of the colonial cartographers—Gertrude Bell, Winston Churchill, and Georges Clemenceau—are in play as they have never been before.” —from the Foreword, by Fuad Ajami and Charles Hill, to Weaver's Lost Art - The Great Unraveling: The Remaking of the Middle East ••• Charles Hill ••• Hoover Institution Press, 2014. Kindle Edition, available on Amazon.

Old maps, held in mind, obscure the shifting of rivers as they respond to forces unknown to careless map keepers and readers.

“Since remote antiquity, statecraft’s great metaphor has been weaving. Traces of cloth found at Fayoum and depictions of weavers at work on the walls of pharaonic Egypt reveal the centrality of weaving to ordered life in the ancient world.”

“Physically-defined universities will slowly give way to cloud-based universities.” ••• Alvin Rabushka, Hoover Institution

“Since 1975, we have grown, saved, and shared heirloom seeds and led a movement to protect biodiversity and preserve heirloom varieties. At the heart of our organization is a seed bank that houses a collection of 20,000+ rare, open-pollinated varieties. With gardeners like you, we can get these seeds where they belong—in gardens and on tables everywhere, for generations to come. When seeds are in our bank, they are protected. When seeds are growing in your garden, they thrive.” —Seed Savers Exchange •••

Explorers Foundation investment in the work of Seed Savers Exchange •••

Compare Seed Savers Exchange ••• to Liberty Fund •••

“Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing.” ••• James Bovard ••• Mises Institute ••• ~thanks to Lara Ewing Himber

‘Dr. David Kessler, who became FDA commissioner in 1990, quickly sought to intimidate the companies that his agency regulates. A laudatory Washington Post article concluded, "What he cannot accomplish with ordinary regulation, Kessler hopes to accomplish with fear.”

Dr. Kessler declared in 1992: "If members of our society were empowered to make their own decisions…then the whole rationale for the [FDA] would cease to exist." Kessler derided "freedom of choice" as an illusion unless people are presented only with government-approved choices.’

Predicted hospitalizations vs. actual hospitalizations: ‘Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, took a serious look at the IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Coronavirus model and called it “garbage.” Davis makes his case through a series of tweets (below). Davis found that the actual numbers of hospitalizations on April 1 were a fraction of the numbers projected by the IHME model.’ ••• ‘Davis writes that if we’re going to shut down the entire nation’s economy to “flatten the curve” based on the projections of a single model, it shouldn’t be too much to ask that the model approximate reality when it comes to hospitalizations.’

Those who thrive on increased control do not like to see fear diminished.

“The looming collapse of the Eurozone” ••• Tuomas Malinen, 2 Apr 2020 ~thanks to Jim Bennett for this link to an article in “reaction.life”, edited by Iain Martin, former editor of The Telegraph

Which is the greater danger: the virus or the response of governments?

Virus: Roundup: Just a few of the disease experts who have criticized the hysterical reaction to COVID-19 ••• Daniel Payne - Assistant Editor. The College Fix, April 1, 2020 — this is a good collection, worth thinking about.

The Tyranny of Metrics ••• Jerry Z. Muller, published by Princeton University Press, 2018

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